JURIST
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Friday partially reinstated 2023 laws in Hawaii and California banning the carry of firearms in certain “sensitive places.” After the laws’ passage, the “sensitive place” designations were subsequently challenged as violating the US Constitution’s Second Amendment , which establishes the right to keep and bear arms.
LLRX
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.
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JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
In the 1999 cult classic The Blair Witch Project , one character tells his friends “I could help you, but I’d rather stand here and record.” For free speech advocates, we often feel that other citizens have become passive observers as an anti-free speech movement grows around us, threatening our “ indispensable right.” One of the most infamous figures in this movement has been former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has long been the smiling face of censorship
InHouseBlog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
In-house lawyers can breathe a sigh of relief, as a new measure to track and compare attorney performance is focused on law firm lawyers.
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JURIST
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
Eight international human rights organizations on Friday condemned Kyrgyzstan authorities’ decision to liquidate investigative outlet Kloop Media, one week after the Kyrgyzstan Supreme Court upheld the decision. The organizations, which included Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International and Civil Rights Defenders, denounced the decision in a joint statement, warning that the suppression of independent media in Kyrgyzstan signals an alarming deterioration of civil liberties.
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JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
Below is my column in Fox.com on the Hunter Biden guilty plea. The plea proved vintage Hunter Biden for all of the wrong reasons. The effort to plead guilty without admitting guilt left him looking like the most privilege person since Marie Antoinette. However, it was consistent with a bizarre criminal defense that never seemed connected to a legal strategy.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Friday condemning the treason charges leveled against protestors in Nigeria last month, which can be punishable by death. The organization found that 124 people were arrested in Nigeria during the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria campaign in August, and 10 of those individuals were charged with treason. HRW Nigeria Researcher Anietie Ewang said that “by charging protesters with treason, the Nigerian authorities are sending a troubling message abou
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday vacated the class certification of Black Lives Matter protesters in their 2020 complaint against the city of Los Angeles for alleged use of excessive force. The appeals court sent the case back to the trial court for a fresh look at class certification, offering the Black Lives Matter Los Angeles chapter another shot at suing as a collective group.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
Amnesty International urged Hong Kong government to show progress in establishing an alternative framework to recognize same-sex partnerships, in its statement issued on Thursday. The statement marked one year since the Court of Final Appeal (CFA)’s landmark ruling in Sham Tsz Kit v. Secretary for Justice. On September 5, 2023, the CFA ruled in the Sham Tsz Kit case that the government has a constitutional duty to provide an alternative legal framework for recognizing same-sex partnersh
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JURIST
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced Friday that it had arrested a 20-year-old Pakistani man residing in Canada over an alleged plot to carry out a mass shooting at a New York City Jewish center on or around October 7, 2024, one year after the Hamas attack on Israel that killed nearly 800 civilians. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) claimed that the man, Muhammed Shahzeb Khan, intended to commit the shooting in support of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a militant
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